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A Slack bot that fetches the most current archived versions of URLs (as available) and posts them in response to mentions. Uses the Wayback Machine API for creating URLs.

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Slack Wayback bot

This is a Slack bot that runs on AWS Lambda.

Make sure your environment variables are configured properly, or the app won't run. The required variables are:

  • SLACK_BOT_TOKEN

Requirements

To build this bot, you'll need an AWS account.

Related tutorials

If you're interested in setting up a similar Slack bot, I recommend starting with the Slack API Bot tutorial.

Once you're ready to deploy, I recommend this Medium post for configuring Slack bots on AWS Lambda.

Slack configuration

Currently, the configured Slack Bot Token Scopes are:

  • app_mentions:read
  • channels:join
  • chat:write
  • chat:write.public
  • links:read

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A Slack bot that fetches the most current archived versions of URLs (as available) and posts them in response to mentions. Uses the Wayback Machine API for creating URLs.

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